Nicole Rivière educates children—including very young children—and raises awareness among parents about the functions of sleep. She helps early childhood professionals (childcare...

Parents have a fundamental role to play in ensuring that their teenagers get enough sleep, according to the National Union of Family Associations (UNAF), which points out that the law...

In September 2000, the Isère General Council conducted a survey aimed at estimating the prevalence of sleep disorders among children aged 2 to 3, identifying associated factors, and...

Several studies on adolescents highlight the issue of sleep deprivation: 80% of high school students are reportedly two hours short of sleep on each school day. Based on this finding,...

For several years now, the school health service at Saint-Michel-de-Picpus School in Paris has been running an awareness campaign on sleep for eighth- and eleventh-grade students,...

Do the French suffer from insomnia? One might think so, given that their consumption of psychotropic drugs is two to four times higher than that of their European neighbors... In light...

Interview with Damien Léger, professor at the Paris-Descartes Faculty of Medicine and director of the Sleep and Vigilance Center at Hôtel-Dieu in Paris. He offers a brief overview of the...

About four in ten people report experiencing at least one of the five main symptoms of insomnia on a recurring basis. These sleep disorders become increasingly common with age. While...

A portion of the population does not get enough sleep, and the situation has worsened over the past decade. According to Professor Damien Léger, president of the National Institute of...

Research conducted over the past fifty years has confirmed the role of sleep as a restorative and regulatory process. During sleep, the immune system is strengthened, the skin...